Letter: Government waste calls for more audits

This newspaper did an excellent job of highlighting a report titled "Billions of Federal Tax Dollars Misspent on New York's Medicaid Program." If the truth be known, most government spending is not audited, overpayments occur and unfortunately there is also abuse and outright fraud.

Does anyone really believe that every dollar our government spends on defense, public projects, politicians' salaries, etc., is appropriate and wisely spent? My suggestion is that all future government expenditures must include a responsible oversight body, that has to periodically report to the taxpayers. The founders of our Constitution wisely believed in checks and balances.

ALLEN PLATT

BRIGHTON

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Letter: Government waste calls for more audits

Does anyone really believe that every dollar our government spends on defense, public projects, politicians' salaries, etc., is appropriate and wisely spent?